Recent content by bmschwar

Interesting -- the same thing has happened with or without a GPU in place (the install failing partway or no signal to the monitor), so I figured it couldn't be that.

My understanding is that to run any game I'd need the gpu, but just to boot up and install windows it wouldn't be necessary -- correct me if I'm wrong on that. I actually am unsure of the cpu cooler -- it came with the prebuilt and worked for that. And yes I redid the thermal paste with the new...

the GPU is a 2070S -- I've all the errors I listed happened both with and without the gpu in. And I did do a test with the old PSU and ran into the same error.

Yup, I used only the cables that came with the new PSU

Apologies for the long post, but I’m at my wits end at this point with what I’ve tried to build this PC. I bought mysel;f the MSI Aegis (specific build here) a few weeks back, mostly for the graphics card and a few other parts I didn’t have yet. When I got the computer, I turned it on and...